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Misfit Toys in my ass

Pink Sand in my ass

What Life Brings in my ass

A Fool Moon Night in my ass

this never gets old

If you decide to buy a MacBook (and from my recent experience with an M1 Pro I would advise against it) you should check in advance if all your daily software is available. Asahi itself is fairly stable and enjoyable to use, the software repo is still lacking in a lot of places though. As others have said, you’ll probably be better off financially and mentally with a decently specced used Thinkpad if Linux is your primary OS.

Only anecdotally, but a friend of mine has been complaining about his 6a for at least 2 months now, saying the device gets sluggish and he encounters more bugs with every update. My mom reports similar things with her 7 Pro. So if GrapheneOS isn‘t important for you, I would skip Pixels for now. The Nothing 2a looks really good though.

Googles implementation of RCS, the one they are pushing as standard, is indeed proprietary

GPT4All might be your answer. Desktop, open source, supports using GPT4 through the API.